Buyers Guides for Real-Time Data

2026 Software Provider and Product Assessment

The ISG Buyers Guides for Real-Time Data are the distillation of continuous market and product research. They are an assessment of how well software providers’ offerings address enterprises’ requirements for platforms software. The Value Index methodology is structured to support a request for information (RFI) for a request for proposal (RFP) process by incorporating all criteria needed to evaluate, select, utilize and maintain relationships with software providers. The ISG Buyers Guide evaluates customer experience and the product experience in its capability and platform.

The 2026 ISG Buyers Guides™ for Real-Time Data evaluate leading software providers across five platform industry areas: Real-Time Data, Real-Time Data Emerging Providers, Application Integration, Streaming Analytics and Streaming Data. Each guide delivers unique research, detailed ratings and rankings and in-depth analyses to help enterprises assess and select the analytics and data software that best fits their requirements.

• The Real-Time Data Buyers Guide evaluates 23 software providers offering products that support messaging, event processing, streaming data and real-time analytics. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, Cloud Software Group, Cloudera, Confluent, Cumulocity, Databricks, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, SAS, Siemens, Solace and Tencent Cloud.

  • As part of the 2026 ISG Buyers Guide™ for Real-Time Data, ISG also evaluates software providers that address messaging and event processing capabilities, including connectivity, messaging, event management, event monitoring and AI. This research assessed the following software providers: Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, Cloud Software Group, Cloudera, Confluent, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, Solace and Tencent Cloud.
    
    
• The Real-Time Data Emerging Providers Buyers Guide evaluates 17 software providers offering products that support messaging, event processing, streaming data and streaming analytics. The guide assesses the following providers: Adeptia, Conduktor, Gravitee, GridGain, Hazelcast, InfluxData, Kinetica, Kurrent, Materialize, Patchworks, Qubole, PhoenixAI, Redpanda, Safe Software, StarTree, StreamNative and Striim.
  
  
• The Application Integration Buyers Guide evaluates 24 software providers offering products that support application connectivity, API management and integration process orchestration. The guide assesses the following providers: AWS, Axway, Boomi, Celigo, Cleo, Cloud Software Group, Frends, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Jitterbit, Microsoft, Oracle, Qlik, Salesforce (Informatica), Salesforce (MuleSoft), SAP, SEEBURGER, ServiceNow, SnapLogic, Solace, Tray.ai, Workato and Zapier.
  
  
• The Streaming Analytics Buyers Guide evaluates 21 software providers offering products that support stream processing, real-time analytics and event-driven data management. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, ClickHouse, Cloud Software Group, Cloudera, Confluent, Cumulocity, Databricks, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Imply, KX, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, SAS and Siemens.
  
  

• The Streaming Data Buyers Guide evaluates 25 software providers offering products that support event streaming, stream processing and governance of data in motion. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, Cloud Software Group, Cloudera, Confluent, Cumulocity, Databricks, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, KX, Microsoft, MongoDB, Oracle, Palantir, Red Hat, Redis, Salesforce, SAS, Siemens, Solace and Tencent Cloud.

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